DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi government plans to sell 2% of state oil giant Aramco in a domestic listing on Dec. 11, three sources familiar with the matter said, but restrictions on future share sales mean an international IPO is ruled out for at least a year. FILE PHOTO: A view shows branded oil tanks
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Southern Yemeni separatist fighters stand guard outside the headquarters of the Southern Transitional Council in Aden, Yemen November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced on Tuesday an agreement between Yemen’s government and southern separatists to end a power struggle in the south of the country that had
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The air quality in the Indian capital, New Delhi, improved slightly on Tuesday as the wind picked up to blow away some of the pollution shrouding the city for days. Buildings are seen shrouded in smog in New Delhi, India, November 5, 2019. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis But the air remained at the
A replica of Antonio Stradivari’s ‘Huberman’ violin in the making is seen at the shop of internationally recognised self-taught craftsman Svetozar Bogdanovski, in Veles, North Macedonia October 9, 2019. Picture taken October 9,2019. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski VELES, North Macedonia (Reuters) – Svetozar Bogdanovski built his first violin 35 years ago for his son Kostadin, then aged
FILE PHOTO: Plastic bags of fentanyl are displayed in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection area of the International Mail Facility at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott/File Photo BEIJING (Reuters) – Drug law enforcement officers from China and the United States will jointly brief the media on Thursday
BELFAST (Reuters) – Division among Northern Ireland’s pro-British and pro-Irish parties over Brexit has prompted tactical electoral moves that put at risk some of the seats that had given the province’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) the balance of power in London. Deputy leader of the DUP, Nigel Dodds MP speaks at the Democratic Unionist Party
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump broke with a decades-long tradition of U.S. presidential candidates by not releasing his tax returns during his campaign, prompting state and Congressional investigators to seek the returns through other means. U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a Keep America Great Rally at the Rupp Arena in
(Reuters) – When Apple Inc’s video streaming service made its debut on Friday, it came with $2 billion worth of original programming – a feature widely considered to be the most powerful magnet for new subscribers. FILE PHOTO: Gamers and visitors take a rest at the booth of Netflix during Europe’s leading digital games fair
FILE PHOTO: Tennis – ATP 1000 – Paris Masters – AccorHotels Arena, Paris, France – November 3, 2019 Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after winning the final against Canada’s Denis Shapovalov REUTERS/Christian Hartmann (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer were drawn in the same group for this month’s year-ending ATP Finals in London while new
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The journey of NASA’s dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system’s farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun’s energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins. FILE PHOTO: NASA’s Voyager spacecraft in space is shown in this artist’s
TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices steadied on Tuesday as investors kept an eye on U.S. inventory data due later, following two days of gains on positive economic data and hopes for a Washington-Beijing trade deal. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind an oil pump outside Saint-Fiacre, near Paris, France September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Brent
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will allow motorcycle-hailing firms such as Indonesia’s Gojek and local start-up Dego Ride to start operations on a limited scale from January 2020, Malaysia’s transport minister said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Commuters pass by a Gojek advertisement in Singapore March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo Gojek – whose backers include
FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union – Rugby World Cup 2019 – Pool C – England v United States – Kobe Misaki Stadium, Kobe, Japan – September 26, 2019 John Quill of the U.S. leaves the pitch after receiving a red card from referee Nic Berry REUTERS/Annegret Hilse (Reuters) – United States flanker John Quill, who was
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Cooperation between Europe and China on reducing climate-warming emissions will be “decisive”, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, after the Trump administration filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping hold a news conference with German
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The former chief executive of Brazilian iron ore miner Vale received an anonymous email weeks before the deadly collapse of a tailings dam at Brumadinho in January 2019 warning about “dams at their limit,” according to the findings of an exhaustive congressional report on the disaster. FILE PHOTO: A member of
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. diplomats told lawmakers the State Department was being used for domestic political purposes under President Donald Trump and warned that would hurt American interests, according to transcripts released on Monday in Congress’ impeachment investigation. The transcripts were the first released from the closed-door inquiry by the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence